Me and the wife with Toxie and Unca Lloydie Kaufman (of Troma) at a screening of their new movie Father's Day tonight...

Oh, man, you lucky bastard! Father's Day in the theatre. WOW. Let me know how it was, ok? I've been dying to see it since I saw the utterly AMAZING trailer last year.

It was fantastic! It was done by the Astron-6 guys and was totally nuts! It played on so many types of movies/styles that you couldn't hardly keep up with it, but that's a good thing. By the end, it was so off the rails, that I was already wanting to watch it again. Unfortunately, I asked Lloyd when the dvd was coming out, and he said it will be awhile, but the same guys (Astron-6) just put out another dvd a couple weeks ago that is equally great. It's filled with their short films (like 20 or so). They are plays on a ton of genres that would fit in perfectly here. Slashers and beach movies from the 80s, Italian zombie movies from the 70s, old sci-fi, sword and sorcery, and a bunch of others. I highly recommend it!

Check the Troma website - Father's Day is being toured around. It's playing here all week, once a night, so I'll definitely be heading back again...

Me in 1974-I was 11. It was my Bithday-Note the History of Horror Movies book.

Ronnie, that was the first movie book that my parents bought me and I still have it. ~ if I look across my desk, I can see our library's copy of it. Great book by Denis Gifford.

TREVOR- That's the first book on horror films that I ever bought, back in '73; I's had a book on SF films by Gifford that someone had given me, a couple years earlier. Wish I still had them.

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The choice is simple; refuse to create, and refuse to grow, or build, with care and love.